Health
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ACC Recycling Official: ‘Better to Throw It Out Than Recycle’
The Athens-Clarke County Recycling Division gets over 80 tons of recyclables each day, and they want more but not everything. “That is one of the downsides to single-stream. Single stream is a lot easier, there is only one container for all the recyclables,” Cema Wallace, the Program Education Specialist at the…
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Autism Awareness Month: How One Local Family Is Affected
ELBERTON — April marks Autism Awareness Month. According to the CDC, 1 in 68 children born have Autism Spectrum Disorder, or better known as autism. While this month is special for the White family, autism awareness is 365 days a year in their home. http://[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWczzBflWBQ&w=560&h=315] By Emily McLanahan
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Mental Health Awareness Week Focuses on Student-Athletes
The Student Athlete Advisory Committee recognizes this week as Student-Athlete Mental Health Awareness Week. This means that student-athletes will be meditating. watching documentaries on mental health, enjoying a carnival, and having open discussions at breakfast. While this week is all about celebration, the stigma of mental illness has not always…
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UGA Study Discovers Exercise Enhances Diabetic Medicine
ATHENS, Ga. — University of Georgia graduate student Melissa Lynn Erickson discovered that exercise can help people with Type 2 diabetes and not for a reason you would think. The solution was exercise — specifically the treadmill located in the Kinesiology lab on UGA’s campus. “The role that exercise can…
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Positivity Week Helps Students Deal with Suicide
This week is positivity week at Apalachee High school. The week was created by the Yearbook staff after three students committed suicide in one year. “I was actually kind of close with one of them so that kind of hit home with me and when Ms. Rehberg told me this was…
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New UGA Organization Works to Overcome Youth Obesity
With hotter and hotter temperatures and summer right around the corner, the urge to hit the gym to get the perfect ‘summer bod’ is a mission for a lot of young people. For some people, dropping those pounds is easier said then done. Weight is an ongoing fight for many…
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Obama: Science-Based Methods, More Funding Needed to Fight Opioid Abuse
Atlanta- President Obama is hoping that Congress will heed his call for more funding to reduce opioid abuse. He said in Atlanta on Tuesday that the issue is a “public health problem,” not a “criminal” one. The president participated in a panel discussion on combating opioid abuse at the National Rx…
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How Much Can Pollen Cost You?
Pollen may be costing you more than just a sneeze. It may have an impact on your bank account. Reporter Jared Sweat shows you how much it could cost. Also, tune in for more at 5:00.
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Medical Amnesty Series: Part 2
Local Law Enforcement officials say easy access to opioid drugs is why Athens is one of several cities in the state where overdose deaths are rising. That’s despite a two-year old Amnesty Law designed to prevent them. The law ensures if someone is dying of an overdose, a friend can…
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UGA Researchers Break Ground on Flu Vaccine
Researchers at the University of Georgia and Sanofi Pasteur, a multinational pharmaceutical company announced today the development of a vaccine that protects against multiple strains of both seasonal and pandemic H1N1 influenza in mouse models. Using a technique called Computationally Optimized Broadly Reactive Antigen, UGA researchers Donald Carter, Christopher Darby…